But it's a good story, Joule decided that there must be a direct relationship between work and heat.

所以说，这只是一个不错的故事而已，焦耳认为功和热之间,一定具有某种直接的联系。

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This is the kind of story that has a moral. It's a feel-good story.

这是一个有寓意的故事，一个正面的故事。

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I'm not sure if it's altogether true, but it's a good story, at least, about the famous German philosopher who said that on his first teaching of the Republic, he went through the whole book, ! taught the whole book in one seminar, one semester.

不确定是否都对，但是讲得很好，至少，讲者是著名德国哲学家,他在首堂讲授《理想国》的课中如此提问，然后教完整本巨著，整本巨著在一个学期内教完，一个学期。

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The Genesis story of God's peremptory prohibition of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the strongest analogy that I can think of to the licenser's peremptory prohibition of a book.

创世纪》的故事中上帝坚决禁止,智慧树区分善恶的果实是我能想到的,最有力的和管制者对书本的坚决禁止的类比。

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Good, so in the standard story you've got these two crooks, or two accused crooks, and they're in separate cells and they're being interviewed separately--kept apart--and they're both told that if neither of them rats the other guy out, they'll go to jail for say a year.

在故事里有两个罪犯,他们都被指控了 被分别关进了牢房,他们俩被单独提审,两人都知道如果他们不坦白,他们都要只需要坐一年牢

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